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Sleeping Less May be related to Weight Gain

...ic of obesity in the United States by studying how loss of sleep alters the complex metabolic pathways tha...dren are not obtaining enough sleep and that sleep loss during the formative years of life could be putting our youth on a trajectory toward obesity and the...

Two Sessions Of Exercise A Week Could Help Elderly Patients

...n and women, 60 to 96 years old, who suffered from loss of body mass and strength, otherwise known as sarc...ecent study shows older people can minimize muscle loss by incorporating a weight training routine into their lifestyle by just doing few sets of exercise e...

Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Found To Increase The Risk Of Fractures

...heir outcomes. Since the treatment was linked to a loss of bone mineral density (BMD), researchers wanted to determine how it impacted the risk of fractures. Prostate cancer patients treated between 1992 and 1997 were studied. Researchers say in addition to finding the increased risk of bone fracture amo...

Weight Loss An Indicator Of Dementia In The Elderly

New research suggests weight loss may be an early sign of dementia in the elderly. Researchers found weight loss begins before the onset of // definite dementia symptoms and accelerates by the time of diagnosis. ...

The Link Between Weight Loss and Heart Failure

Researchers note weight loss is an important predictor of poor outcome in patie...tration of the substance led to significant weight loss and angiotensin II was also linked to a decrease in blood and skeletal muscle levels of insulin-like...

Weight Training Found To Be Effective In Treating MS

...causes muscle weakness and fatigue, which leads to loss of mobility and a decreased quality of life, researchers designed an exercise program to develop muscle strength. After eight weeks of supervised resistance training on gym equipment, researchers found MS patients had stronger muscles, could walk ...

Analyzing The Risk Factors For Diabetic Neuropathy

...ients had the condition, which is characterized by loss of feeling or painful tingling in various parts of the body, at the initial screen. All patients were followed for about seven years. On analyzing the data 276 patients, or about 23 percent, developed neuropathy. While incidence of the condition was...

Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements Could Be Effective In Treating Patients With Osteoporosis

...ss. Patients with Crohn's disease suffer bone mass loss and bone fractures due to treatment with corticosteroids, poor nutrition, active inflammation, and calcium and vitamin D deficiencies. Researchers studied the effectiveness of the bone-building drug etidronate (Didronel) in patients with Crohn's. It...

Migraines Found To Increase Stroke Risk

...archers say women who suffer migraines with vision loss have a 70-percent increased risk of stroke // comp...vestigated whether migraines accompanied by visual loss or migraines with visual lines and spots increased the likelihood of ischemic stroke compared to wom...

Preventing Osteoporosis

...s a chronic, progressive disorder where there is a loss of normal bone density. A new study shows that the...on the drug and then taken off of it had a gradual loss of their improvements in their bone density. Thus researchers say continuous treatment of 10 milli...

Is caries in primary and permanent tooth related?

...oridation, disturbance to primary teeth, and early loss of primary teeth. Accounting for all these differences, can caries in primary teeth have long-term effect on the oral health of the child? Research says that there exists an association between dental caries in primary maxillary incisors and dental...

Old Drugs Safe To Use In Cancer Treatment ?

...reatic cancer patients and was seen to help weight loss in cancer patients who ultimately succumb to the effects of severe weight loss by the disease. This drug has also showed similar positive effects in AIDS and tuberculosis patients...

Blindness may be genetic by nature

...e to find out a genetic component that may lead to loss of sight. In search of what is commonly known as...does not inhibit inflammations in the eye, causing loss of vision. Three studies, conducted at different places, have come up with the same gene causing g...

Yogurt To Control Obesity

...ion. The people on the yogurt diet showed marked loss of fat and loss of lean tissue. There was also marked inch loss from the waist and trunk for the subjects on the die...

Fungal Infections Effectively Controlled By Light Therapy

...n identified for the response. It is said that the loss of the same genes reduces fungal infection in mice. Mice which lacked either of the light-sensing genes and were inoculated with the C. neoformans remained healthy 30 days later, while those infected with the normal fungus died after 30 days. Light ...

Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

... the phenotype. Deafness is often associated with loss of sensory hairs in the cochlea due to age, infection or disease. Hearing loss becomes incurable, as the lost sensory hair cells do not regenerate. The new gene therapy may be abl...

Supplement Of CLA May Reduce Body Fat

...erides or CLA supplements as medication for weight loss in obese adults. More studies are required to confirm the results and find out the safety of using the drug for the long term....

Onions to prevent osteoporosis

...nt with the peptide helped in controlling the bone loss by preventing the loss of bone minerals like calcium. The results prove that onion does have a significant effect on oste...

Drug for osteoporosis can reduce memory loss in elderly women

...l women were tested for cognitive impairments like loss of memory etc. and dementia, by dementia specialis...ive disability over the years develops into memory loss and other forms of dementia.The results of the study were published in the current issue of The Amer...

WHO says damage to eco systems are affecting human health

...and hence may not be felt in the initial stages of loss and will be only felt in cases of major disease outbreaks or health hazards that may affect a whole population before it may be understood. The report which is the first of a series that will assess the global ecology in its present state and its l...

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